Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 “The First Shall Be Last”: Apology and Redemption in the Work of the First New England Poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
- 2 Phillis Wheatley
- 3 The Historical Epic, Women’s Poetry, and Early American Verse
- 4 The Fire This Time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
- 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 6 Edgar Allan Poe
- 7 Walt Whitman
- 8 Melville the Poet
- 9 Forever Young: Rereading Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Paul Laurence Dunbar
- 11 Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 12 Robert Frost
- 13 Gertrude Stein
- 14 Wallace Stevens
- 15 William Carlos Williams
- 16 Ezra Pound
- 17 Marianne Moore
- 18 T. S. Eliot and American Poetry
- 19 Hart Crane’s Visionary Company
- 20 The New Negro Renaissance
- 21 Langston Hughes
- 22 Elizabeth Bishop
- 23 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 24 The Three Voices of Robert Lowell
- 25 The Black Mountain School
- 26 Jack Spicer
- 27 Allen Ginsberg: Irreverent, Reverential, and Apocalyptic American Poet
- 28 Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
- 29 “Street Musicians”: Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery
- 30 Adrienne Rich: The Poetry of Witness
- 31 An “Empty Prescription”: Pleasure in Contemporary American Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
- References
4 - The Fire This Time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 “The First Shall Be Last”: Apology and Redemption in the Work of the First New England Poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
- 2 Phillis Wheatley
- 3 The Historical Epic, Women’s Poetry, and Early American Verse
- 4 The Fire This Time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
- 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 6 Edgar Allan Poe
- 7 Walt Whitman
- 8 Melville the Poet
- 9 Forever Young: Rereading Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Paul Laurence Dunbar
- 11 Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 12 Robert Frost
- 13 Gertrude Stein
- 14 Wallace Stevens
- 15 William Carlos Williams
- 16 Ezra Pound
- 17 Marianne Moore
- 18 T. S. Eliot and American Poetry
- 19 Hart Crane’s Visionary Company
- 20 The New Negro Renaissance
- 21 Langston Hughes
- 22 Elizabeth Bishop
- 23 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 24 The Three Voices of Robert Lowell
- 25 The Black Mountain School
- 26 Jack Spicer
- 27 Allen Ginsberg: Irreverent, Reverential, and Apocalyptic American Poet
- 28 Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
- 29 “Street Musicians”: Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery
- 30 Adrienne Rich: The Poetry of Witness
- 31 An “Empty Prescription”: Pleasure in Contemporary American Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets , pp. 47 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Further Reading
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Gibian, Peter, Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gioia, Dana, “Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism,” The Columbia History of American Poetry, ed. Parini, Jay (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993): 64–96.Google Scholar
Griffin, Martin, Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865–1900 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009).Google Scholar
Irmscher, Christoph, Longfellow Redux (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006; 2nd ed., 2008).Google Scholar
Irmscher, Christoph, Private Poet, Public Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009).Google Scholar
Irmscher, Christoph, “Longfellow’s Sentimentality,” Soundings 93.3/4 (Fall/Winter 2010): 249–280.Google Scholar
Irmscher, Christoph, “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature, ed. Bryer, Jackson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).Google Scholar
Irmscher, Christoph, and Arbour, Robert, eds., Reconsidering Longfellow (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Sorby, Angela, Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance and the Place of American Poetry, 1865–1917 (Lebanon: University of New Hampshire Press, 2005).Google Scholar